Word: telegraphs
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When American Telephone & Telegraph entered the computer business six years ago, big things were expected to happen. After all, the company had invented the transistor, the basic building block of modern computers, and it had built the nation's telephone system, which is essentially one vast computer network. Industry analysts predicted that AT&T one day would even challenge IBM for market supremacy. The government, which had barred Ma Bell from the business until the phone monopoly was broken in 1984, fretted that it might be opening the way for the giant (1989 revenues: $36.11 billion) to dominate the computer...
...what exactly will the U.S. and Iraq talk about? Everything and nothing, it seems. During his midday press conference last Friday, Bush said Baker would be prepared "to discuss all aspects of the gulf crisis," words that appeared to telegraph the possibility of a face-saving compromise. But there "can be no face-saving," Bush added only minutes later. Baker's will not be a "trip of concession," the President insisted. His sole purpose will be to make sure Saddam "understands the commitment of the U.S." to "implementing to a T . . . the United Nations position." That would mean Bush...
...Pentagon itself has been soberly reassessing the costs of conflict. The quick and clean scenarios floated brashly in September have been tossed aside. If war comes, said Cheney, "it won't be easy." So while the significant increase in allied firepower helps telegraph Washington's seriousness of purpose, it is military necessity as much as psychological posturing that mandates the added punch...
This is the message of a new $10 million permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Titled "Information Age: People, Information & Technology," the show brings together 700 objects and artifacts, ranging from Morse's telegraph to an early Apple computer. Through re-created scenes and videos, the exhibition tries to capture the mood of each period during the information age, which has repeatedly confounded both the hopes and fears of society. "Our goal was to display technology as a human enterprise," says curator David Allison, "subject to all the foibles and failures...
...electricity, notes that the sending of the first transatlantic cable message in 1858 was widely hailed as an event that would introduce an era of world peace because it would enhance communication between different peoples. Shortly afterward, the U.S. Civil War broke out, and the opposing armies took over telegraph offices, establishing a coupling between information technology and warfare that continues to the present...